Thank you Finneytown for your support and confidence in us! While your votes pushed us over the top, we welcome your continued input as we build Finneytown’s future. We will continue to share updates and information on the district’s plans for the new facilities. Stay tuned to the district website www.finneytown.org
Whitaker Elementary students, staff, and parents honored veterans and first responders in a memorable ceremony on Tuesday evening. Over 350 students, parents and community members attended and honored over 40 veterans and first responders. Mr. Grant Anderson, Whitaker Elementary Principal, emceed the event and began with a sincere thank you to all the veterans and first responders in attendance and all those in our community. He related the ceremony’s significance in his own life and the desire to help the …
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Introducing Finneytown Local School District’s Fall 2019 newsletter.
The Council on Child Abuse visited each classroom at the end of September to teach students about bullying awareness and response. Additionally, Student Council President, Violet Kimnach, has been sharing a Bullying Awareness fact per day over morning announcements.
Students of the Month were recognized during our Monthly Whitaker Way Assembly. Students were selected based upon showing our Whitaker Way: Being Respectful, Being Responsible, Being Positive. Students received certificates and had their pictures taken to be added to the “Whitaker Way” wall poster Students of the month were treated to donuts with Mr. Anderson on Monday, October 7th. The Celebratory Breakfast is used to reinforce, incentivize, and recognize students who show the “Whitaker Way” on a regular basis.
Students chose an act of kindness that they wanted to commit to performing and then shared these ideas with their homeroom during circle time. Students wrote this act of kindness down onto a paper hand which they then used to decorate and grow our Kindness Tree in the main hallway.
